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Definition of Extirpating
1. extirpate [v] - See also: extirpate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extirpating
Literary usage of Extirpating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. European Agriculture and Rural Economy by Henry Colman (1851)
"extirpating HARROW. — This is a new implement, invented by Arthur Biddell, of
Playford, and similar to the scarifier which bears his name. ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... its assent take charge of the work of suppressing or extirpating contagious,
infectious, or communicable diseases there prevailing, and which endangered ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"... described as merely exploratory procedures in the region of the ethmoid cells.]
A New Method of extirpating Growths from the Larynx of Children. —DR. ..."
4. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"The possibility of extirpating orbital tumours with safety to the eyeball and
neighbouring parts, will depend on the situation, connexions, ..."
5. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1864)
"A NEW METHOD OF extirpating LARGE POLYPI. PROFESSOR SIMON, of Rostock, suggests
a method of overcoming the difficulty of extirpating very large fibrous ..."
6. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1811)
"IMPLEMENT FOR extirpating DOCKS AND THISTLES. XÏ. •-. .|.lnf||- An improved
Implement for extirpating ..."
7. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"... rient to his great object of extirpating thieves and robbers. During his
wandering! he frequently fell in with numerous bands of them, or sought them ..."
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